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South Korea’s opposition-controlled parliament has impeached the performing president, throwing the nation into extra political turmoil.
Lawmakers handed a movement on Friday to question Han Duck-soo, who can be the prime minister, after he resisted strain to nominate three justices to fill vacancies on the constitutional courtroom.
It marked the primary time that an performing president has been impeached in South Korea and comes lower than two weeks after President Yoon Suk Yeol was suspended from his duties for a failed energy seize.
Friday’s vote got here because the nation’s constitutional courtroom opened hearings on Yoon’s impeachment, over his short-lived try to impose martial regulation this month.
It is a growing story